Colosseum Underground Tour with Official Guide

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Colosseum, Piazza del Colosseo, 00184 Rome Italy

Your Colosseum guide will take you into the underground, beneath the arena floor, where she will explain the details of what took place here.

Learn how the underground was used as a backstage area, where not only gladiators waited and prepared for the bloody spectacles but also elaborate stage props to create realistic stage settings, as well as the wild and exotic animals, transported from all corners of the Roman Empire to wow and entertain the Roman mob.

Your guide will explain to you how an elaborate and ingenious system of levels and pulleys were used to hoist all of these stage settings through trapdoors, which were opened at the precise moment, on to the arena floor. She will show you evidence in the walls of these “elevator” systems, and also the cells in the dungeons which were used for the gladiators and beasts.

Your tour will finish on the Arena Floor, where you will find yourself standing in the same spot as gladiators and criminals waiting for execution, 2000 years ago.

Duration: 1 hour

Pass By: Colosseum, Piazza del Colosseo, 00184 Rome Italy

Further Exploration by Yourself:

You can explore the rest of the Colosseum at your leisure by yourselves after the tour. You can also use your ticket to skip the lines to the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill.

• Your ticket effectively is valid for two visits – one visit to the Colosseum, and one visit to the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill (which are considered as one site for the purpose of the ticket, even though there are more than one entrance)

• You may visit the second site within 48 hours of the first time the ticket is scanned by the staff at the first site

• What this means is that, if you wish to visit the Roman Forum / Palatine Hill before your Colosseum tour, you must do so less than 48 hours before the time on your ticket for the Colosseum Underground Tour

• If you wish to visit the Roman Forum & Palatine Hill site after the Colosseum tour, your ticket is valid until 48 hours after the tine you entered the Colosseum

• Gratuities
• Guaranteed to skip the lines
• Entry/Admission - Colosseum

• Not wheelchair accessible
• Near public transportation
• Not recommended for travelers with back problems
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
• Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
• Please provide the full names of all travelers when booking. Failure to present a voucher with all travelers' full names at the ticket office prior to entry may result in denied entry to the Colosseum and Roman Forum.
• Each traveler must present a valid passport or National ID that matches the name provided at the time of booking for successful entry to the Colosseum and Roman Forum.
• This tour/activity will have a maximum of 2 travelers
• Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability

Piazza del Colosseo, 58, 00184 Roma RM, Italy

Returns to original departure point

You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

1 hour 15 minutes